Also, how many of us have purchased keyboards, mice, displays, headphones, etc with our own money that we happily use with employer owned computers because it’s safe to do so?
Sometimes it's misguided thoughts about security and third party keyboards from "unapproved vendors" (which is not entirely invalid to be concerned about, but unlikely to be an attack vector)......
But other times, they really do want you to use exactly what they provide you and nothing else. Things like "looking uniform and professional" or not wanting employees bringing their personal belongings to the workplace or whatever nonsense they come up with.
Sometimes it makes sense, infuriating as it may be. My partner works for a bank and says that daily someone brings up an annoyance due to central IT's restrictions, but nobody wants to be a vector for exfiltration of customer data.
> Things like "looking uniform and professional"
Yeah OK, anybody like that is a control freak!
In extreme freaky control: Tom Siebel was like that at Siebel Systems: you can wear anything you want to work unless customers might see you, in which case you have to wear suit and tie (men) or equivalent. Doesn't sound so bad -- just salespeople, right? -- except that they would tour prospective customers through the development areas so...everybody had to wear suit and a tie.
I have a hunch that the companies that are most obsessed with this are also those who routinely outsource to third-world boiler rooms and are clients of very competent & secure companies such as Okta.
My partner has no exposure to live bank data (not even her own — her team all get bank accounts so they can see what it looks like to be a customer) and she has said to me that she and her colleagues are glad they don’t have to worry about accidentally leaking anything. I guess there must be other teams that have to deal with that.
To my surprise nothing she is exposed to is outsourced overseas.
iPad is not in the list of "standard" hardware for my company (with thousands of developers and a good balance sheet). Good luck getting that approved as an exception.
you also are ignoring the non-technical leadership class. there are plenty of exceptions in full corpo. clearly you weren’t special enough to get one on a whim. no judgement there, never was myself.
The Vision Pro is a weird middle ground of device and peripheral. When it's operating as a virtual display it's more of a peripheral, and it'd be nice if it acted more like one.
Seems easier to just use those if all you need is a virtual display.
I agree. Let work stuff be computed on work devices and I'll do my stuff on my own things. Still want the interface to be consistent and comfortable.
Not to mention potential criss crossing of accounts that happens. Heck my work phone still rings when my personal FaceTime get a call even if I completely logged out of my personal iCloud on the work phone (was a bad idea should never have experimented). No obvious way to fix that.
At some point all my personal iCloud photos showed up on my work phone due to a similar problem. That’s fixed now but I’m always worried it’ll happen again.
I’ll never login with a personal iCloud on a work device ever again.
True. Nobody would log into their work through their own, non-corporate-issued WiFi router, after all.
Right?
Yeah, what kind of fool would plug in their own monitor into a corporate-own laptop?
Who knows what kinds of things they'll talk about! /s
Seriously though, you do you. What you specifically want is fine for what you have.
However, describing The Apple Way™ decision to only allow connections between devices that you own as sensible requires further justification (given a pretty expoistion in the article as to why it is not, in fact, sensible).